Twelfth

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

[Filtered away from people from his own world]

[After a few false starts, have some nervous pen tapping]

Okay. So people are from different time-lines here, yeah? I mean, just because you're from the same world doesn't mean that you're from the same time. Right? Right.

Here's a hypothetical question. Say some of the people from your world are from your future. Would you, hypothetically, ask them about what your future held? Even if you know there's a good chance it's going to be something pretty crappy? Especially if the first hypothetical thing you've learned is something world-shatteringly terrible?

So... Um, yeah. Would you? Ask them, I mean.

...Hypothetically.

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[encryptedlock]

...Well, I wanted to know, and the first thing anyone told me led to me having to seek professional help.

[This guy]

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

That's... kinda ironic. One of the future people in my world is a shrink. He could tell me and psycho-analyse me all at once.

[sigma-hime.livejournal.com]

I would.

...hypothetically.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Even if you could learn something pretty terrible?

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[halfgoddess.livejournal.com]

From someone who didn't ask but was told, you might be better off not knowing. Just some friendly advice.

[This person]

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I came across mine by accident. Kind of wish I hadn't dug deeper now.

[flack]

[considers this for a moment]

Well, in my case -- there's about three years from my point and his point. Which is a little insane, but it's a lot of time to make up, and I, personally, don't like losing it. I know that I'm not dead, and I know that I'm going to have to go home and live it anyway so --

Yeah. I guess if I was curious enough I'd ask. What it is might not be the easiest thing in the world to hear, but -- if you're going to have to live through it anyway at some point -- you might as well.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I'm still alive, and I still have my job, I know that much. It's just everything else that's the question.

...I got a good few years between me and them, too.

[thathoopyfrood.livejournal.com]

What's the point? Especially if it's something crappy? ...You're not one of those self-torture types, are you?

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I like to avoid all forms of torture as often as possible.

[supes]

Ideally, I would say no, I wouldn't, but realistically, it's another story.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

That's the thing, isn't it? You think you're better off not knowing, then someone says something that starts you thinking.

[knowagain.livejournal.com]

No. I don't think so.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't blame you.

[imperturbabilis.livejournal.com]

[written in small, mostly-neat sprawl since Sei's writing blind here]

That would depend on what kind of information it was about myself, and how important it was.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

You've got a point. My life is in the people I choose to have around me. It's more them I'm worried about than me.

[burning-through.livejournal.com]

Some people will just tell you your future whether you like it or not.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Those types, huh? I'm glad my guys have a little bit of tact.

[iownthehallows.livejournal.com]

...

I have done so, I would not recommend it for others. It has caused little but pain.


However, knowledge is power and if something can truly be done about it then perhaps...

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I'm hearing the pain thing. Big time.

Not really, I don't think we can go home and avert the course of things.

[Filter]

[ontheclockpro.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who comes the future compared to a lot of the people from my world here?

I wouldn't recommend it.

[Filter]

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I guess it's not fun, knowing what'll happen to everyone and not being able to tell them.

[hyper-thief.livejournal.com]

Uhm... I would want to know. Or at least, know if something bad is going to happen to me.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

What about if something bad happens to someone you're close to?

[wolfisdumb.livejournal.com]

I'd rather not know. [a slight huff] Someone already told me, though, and I'm not so sure I wanna believe him.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I hear you on that one. I don't know, what I've been told seems so... unlikely, but everyone's convinced it's true.

[seeded-flame.livejournal.com]

I would. The information might be useful regardless of whether it's bad or not.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Even if it's terrible and makes you think about the sort of things you don't want to think about?

[rocksalting.livejournal.com]

I did. Bad idea, dude.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Yeaaah, I figured that one out from the last 'secret' being kept from me. One of the new folks has the subtlety of a house brick, so he's not keeping things quiet very well.

[thruppitybits.livejournal.com]

I asked ... I was ignored, I think. I don't know what to make of that.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

Seriously? Man, that's kinda crappy. Unless they were trying to stop you from getting hurt.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_fredless/]

I'd ask.

I mean, I'd rather know than not.

[thelabking.livejournal.com]

I guess. I'm just scared it's going to be something I really don't like. Nothing I've found out yet is even slightly nice.